Discovery of GIS data is broken. It is overly complicated and incomplete. Organizations spend time and money on creation and acquisition of data, yet it sits on hard drives, dvd’s, and shelves without a straightforward way for others to discover it. Discovery tools that do exist have usability issues which . . .
Vector tiles are becoming a common solution for fast clientside rendering of spatial data in both browsers and mobile devices. With the recent release of TileMill 2 Mapbox has made it easier to design and render vector tiles. This talk will cover the open source technology under the hood in . . .
An overview or GIS tools in server side JavaScript covering turf, proj4js, topojson, mbtiles and integration with Node.js idea like streams.
This is a case study about using WebGIS for fighting crime from a forensics standpoint.
When one thinks about GIS for law enforcement, vehicle tracking and messaging immediately comes to mind. Inteligeo provides support for law enforcement in a different manner: it provides information for the forensics examiner.
The system became operational . . .
MapCache is the MapServer project’s implementation of a tile caching server. It aims to be simple to install and configure, to be (very) fast (written in C and running as a native module under apache or nginx, or as a standalone fastcgi instance), and to be capable (services WMTS, googlemaps, . . .
Recent land cover maps are essential to spatial planning and assessment by non-/governmental agencies. The current land cover mapping methods employed in South Africa are slow and expensive and the most recent national land cover map dates back to 2000. The CSIR is developing an automated land-cover mapping system . . .
What can you do with this GeoServer thing? This talk covers some of the basic (and not so basic) ways to use GeoServer to publish your geospatial data and make it look great!
GeoServer made its first release in 2001 and has grown into an amazing, capable and diverse program. This . . .
GeoServer and the Java toolkit GeoTools comprise one of OSGeo’s fastest moving mapping ecosystems. In addition to this core we will cover java-stack developments in JTS, GeoWebCache and ImageIO-Ext.
First up is “State of GeoServer” reviewing the new and noteworthy features introduced in the past year. Our six month release cycle . . .
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We describe a system that transforms sequences of MODIS images covering the entire Earth into time-optimized data cubes to provide rapid access to time series data for various applications.
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Satellite time series data are key to global change monitoring related to climate and land cover change. Various research and operational applications . . .
Kristianstad municipality in Sweden has since 2013 been using QGIS and QGIS Server as a base in our GIS platform. Our goal is to have a user friendly, yet powerful, set of applications from server via desktop and web to mobile applications. All based on open source. QGIS and QGIS . . .
